another parade

Okay, so Adam and I were the Grand Marshals in the Magic Kingdom parade at Disney World. Now we're going to be in the Independence Day parade that goes right through the middle of Washington DC. No, we're not Grand Marshals or anything like that. We're volunteers, part of the 25 people it will take to navigate the Clifford the Big Red Dog balloon. I have no idea what Clifford and Woody Woodpecker have to do with Independence Day - seems completely out of place in the middle of all the military bands and billions of flags and floats with Abraham Lincoln impersonators on them, but whatever. It will be fun to be in the parade.

We'll be down on the Mall ALL DAY - we have to be there at 8:30 to inflate the balloon, even though the parade doesn't start until noon. We're about a third down the line-up but I'd bet we won't start marching until closer to 1. Then we have to deflate the balloon ... There's a concert at the Washington Monument at 4, the Air Force Band performs at the Air and Space Museum at 6, and the fireworks will start around 8:30 or 9. I have no idea what we'll eat all day, or what we'll sit on when we're dead on our feet ... we may end up skipping the concerts and going home to eat a real meal before making a decision to go back out into the crowds to watch the fireworks.